Whether if you agree or not black Americans are owed reparations

@DecafD well anyways...the reason there will always be a big bias about this is because we waited too long. Reparations should have been paid to slaves or their immediate kin if a slave had not survived long enough to receive their reparations with an official apology like they did for holocaust survivors. It’s hard to get buy-in for it when we waited so long bc now people see it as a hand out when the ppl receiving it have not been directly affected, but instead indirectly. For example- paying 3 billion across the main holocaust survivors (let’s say 3000 ppl as an ex.) would yield greater reparations per survivor vs waiting 100 years to spread the same 3b across their children’s children’s children so now divide it by 1 million. The impact of that money back in the day would’ve changed the course of things drastically for a single family vs the money or whatever you’d get now. I believe that starting with more funding and opportunities in underprivileged areas is the first step. There shouldn’t be a difference in public school education county per county, but it’s there.

@DecafD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation#United_States

@Zenyatta ahh I see I just read it too fast. I thought it meant those master descendants should get something too and I was like hell no! Crazy that in order to free them they would have to buy them out. So if they were still purchased like a commodity, then how were they considered “free”? Still treated like property.

@DecafD that’s the beauty of irony